Friday, October 19, 2012

Look

Unscripted.  Unedited.  Real.
Writing for five minutes.
A sort of writing flash mob.

Five Minute Friday

You say it so many times a day anymore that I have begun to ignore its imperative.  I brush your entreaties off so easily, like the swishing away of a fly or an errant hair across my cheek. I don't think I even hear the half of them.

"Look!"

It's that simple. 
Stop. Turn. Look.

I used to do that naturally. You were smaller then. So was my world. And the days, the hours, the minutes were filled with that delicate dance of looking and showing and telling. We were all so new back then and so I was sure to miss something if I didn't keep looking.

I'm not sure why I think anything has changed. 

Years pass, you grow, we all look different. But there is still so much to show and tell.

And that looking? That urgent desire to have our eyes meet? If I were doing more of it, there would be a lot less asking for it and instead of dancing around each other's gazes we might already be in each other's arms. 






21 comments:

  1. Visiting from FMF. This post makes me want to go wake my son up and give him a big hug. I do this way too often, too. Time is flying by, and I need to stop and look at him more when he is talking to me. Nothing is more important than letting him know that he is worth my time.

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  2. great description of what so easily happens to marriage as life gets crazy busy! fortunately, we can stop and remember what is truly important...and do it!

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  3. why is it that we so often stop looking most at those we love best... whether they be the people God has given and placed intimately in our lives... or God Himself?


    Great thoughts, this morning!

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  4. This was beautiful. A perfect write :)
    http://asoulriver.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/look-five-minute-friday.html

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  5. Great post. I can relate. I'm learning daily to stop and give my undivided attention. Isn't it beautiful to be the recipient of their joyful eyes and radiant smiles in response. :)

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  6. Love this...yes each stage with our children need our attention...and the older they get the looking needs to go deeper. blessings as you look and dance together:)

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  7. Oh, gorgeous, Holly. I love this--reading other moms' hearts, the soul of you, of these women broken, lifting their hallelujahs the only way they know how--it just does something to me, friend. Makes me braver. I'm gonna go be brave now--maybe we'll jump on the trampoline, lay in the hammock and read, I'll maybe teach some scriptures to my daughters on beauty. Tears now--your writing does this to me. Love to you, dear Holly. { Came over from FMF}

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  8. Oh Holly, I too want a new pricking of the Spirit to an alert spirit---to see and notice like a child, to be pulled like gravity out of the dulled senses of an adult into the wide-eyed wonder. Look, there is so much small and grand and beautiful. These adult dull senses need an awakening.

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  9. Yes, to look. Really look into another's eyes. To become One with them. This is what I am looking for.

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  10. I love this, especially "
    If I were doing more of it, there would be a lot less asking for it and
    instead of dancing around each other's gazes we might already be in
    each other's arms." Thank you for sharing!

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  11. You know what, Nancy? Sometimes I wonder how much I might change the world if I started radically loving my children that way...waking them up in the middle of the night just to tell them that I love them. Thank you for visiting from #FMF

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  12. Yes, Martha, this can happen in any of our important relationships but it doesn't have to be that way. We can break the cycle. Glory.

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  13. It is in our nature to turn from our first love, is it not, Richelle? Oh for the grace to turn away from that which distracts us and turn to that which is right before us.

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  14. Dana, that is exactly it. One must first stop. And that is what I need to practice more of each day. And, yes, when I manage to do it, why is this undeserving soul the recipient of such joy and radiance? Grace. That's why.

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  15. Yes, Ro. I wanted to get to that, too...that the looking is different in each instance but I was limited to what could come in five minutes (okay...maybe just a little longer...).

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  16. Oh, to be brave every day, Nacole! Let's convenant together to do just that, what do you say? I love that we have "found" each other among our shared writing circles and I believe that there is a reason for that. Here's to joining hearts and hands as we journey together.

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  17. "Dulled senses" is right! Oh for a quickening and pricking, Yes!

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  18. Thank you for visiting, Erin!

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  19. And for that my heart is grateful! Have a great weekend.

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  20. So true! I need to remember this in the moment.

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